Well, not exactly, but sort of! Gather a group of hot Facebook inspired computer geeks, add a little computer crash drama in the scene, follow them with a camera and hello Hollywood!

This Bravo Network show, co-produced by Randi Zuckerberg, former marketing director for Facebook, is intended to showcase the glamour life of tech start-up founders. Geek is in!

Does the Zuckerberg last name sounds familiar (it should –Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook)? The new reality TV series is co-produced by Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi.

Does L.A really have to take over the Bay Area? I mean, are these Silicon Valley entrepreneurs as socially exciting as “The Social Network” portrayed: girls, parties, highly exclusive Harvard Social Circles? I guess we’ll find out.

Most non-techies would assume that these computer wizards spend a majority of their time sitting in font of computers writing code. Will this line of entertainment sell? Viewers want drama right? I think most can agree, at least those die hard Housewives of New Jersey fans, that it may take a bit of written creativity to get this show pumping. Then again, who said a tech genius can’t be out of control entertaining and successful (blush)?

Randi Zuckerberg’s mission within this debut is to “make accessable and humanize the increasingly important tech community for the average consumer.” It’s a pretty good idea; considering everything hinges on tech these days.

A panel of young female entrepreneurs weighs in on women in technology; the challenges of being a female entrepreneur in the male-dominated tech industry.

Scott Gerber (@askgerber), founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council and author of ‘Never Get a Real Job,’ assembled a panel of young female entrepreneurs to weigh in on the challenges of being a female entrepreneur in the male-dominated tech industry. The panel came up with 7 seriously awesome tips that reflect my line of thinking on the matter.

Women in technology are sparse. As it stands, only 3% of ALL tech firms are founded by women (source: Vivek Wadhwa (@wadhwa), visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, tech researcher & entrepreneur).

So from one female entrepreneur to another female entrepreneur, what are the challenges women in technology face, and what could help eliminate some of those barriers? Here’s what Scott Gerber’s panel shared on Mashable:

2. Sharing is Key: Amanda Aitken (@AmandaAitken) of The Girl’s Guide to Web Design says that women who want to register for a course or launch a startup should share how they feel with friends and colleagues. There’s a misconception that “only men are doing it.” But if women talked about it more, it may give other women permission to dive in.

3. See the Glass as Half Full: Thursday Bram (@ThursdayB) of Hyper Modern Consulting highlights that although, traditionally, there has been a dearth of women in technology, as of late, we’ve seen a rapid incline in growth. According to Bloomberg, women are tech savvy! Thursday suggests we look to the future rather than focus on the past. I agree!

4. Develop Access to Capital: Women founders can find it more difficult to raise funding for their businesses. The statistics show that less than 20 percent of female-led ventures get funding, which is much lower than the statistics for men. That said, Doreen Bloch (@DoreenBloch) of Poshly Inc. (@LivePoshly) recommends several great organizations that are actively helping women reach their funding goals, including Women 2.0 (@Women2) and Astia (@AstiaNYC).

5. Be Yourself: When Lauren Friese (@TalentEgg) of TalentEgg Inc. started her business, not only was she a woman in the tech industry, but she was also very young (only 24). She shares that she learned early on that her biggest strength was her ability to be herself. She says “I didn’t pretend to be older than I was, or have more experience than I had. I also didn’t try to emulate men in my industry. I was just me, and I never listened to any commentary regarding the barriers that I was supposedly facing by being a young woman in technology.”

6. Having Some Chutzpah: Nathalie Lussier (@NathLussier) of Nathalie Lussier Media shares that women need to have some chutzpah (Yiddish for ‘guts’). Once women “start getting their hands dirty in the tech world, there’s no stopping them.”

7. Find Mentors: Natalie MacNeil (@NatalieMacNeil) of She Takes on the World shared that only one in five professional women have had a mentor. It’s surprising since many of the female tech powerhouses, like Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, often discusses how important mentors have been in her career. Natalie says “When looking for a mentor, I think it’s good to seek out males and females… it’s good to have a male perspective [too]. Personally, my male and female mentors push me and challenge me in different ways, and I really appreciate that.”

All around great advice from some serious movers and shakers in the technology entrepreneurship space. If you want to learn more about the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment, follow the hash tag (#FixYoungAmerica).

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Even more astounding, is the next similarity I found between Vacanti and myself:

Both of us quit jobs in finance in order to launch our tech startups!

Because of these similarities, I realized the importance of writing about Yipit (@yipit), Vacanti’s tech company on SheBytes, specifically focusing on how Yipit came to be.

Yipit offers the “best of the daily deals to our users based on the preferences they have expressed to us.” And is centered around a learning software which will ensure that you aren’t barraged with irrelevant coupons and deals, but will rather act as a thoughtful mother who is consistently browsing the papers and cutting out only those coupons you’d actually like to use.

Well anyway, one of the amazing things about Yipit’s CEO and Co-Founder Vacanti is that he was making a huge salary in his finance position and was just settling into it only a few years out of college. The only problem was that he became aware that being comfortable in his current job was not a good place to be.

He realized “the only way to know how good you might be at something is to fail trying it.”

This simple idea began to make him think about his work-life. He noticed that he had never really failed at what he did and therefore became comfortable to do what seemed easy…for Vacanti that was finance.

Because he knew he would be unable to continue working in finance if he never took the risk and gave the tech sector a try he decided to quit (that must’ve been tough), and begin Yipit!

Did he succeed right off the bat?

Well at first…NO! (Disclaimer: I CAN RELATE!)

“I got knocked down many, many times. For the first 2 years, I had no idea what I was doing…”

But eventually Vacanti launched Yipit and its currently growing rapidly.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is dead; the news, which broke late yesterday evening, has left me deeply saddened.

We wrote about Steve Job’s resignation in late August, when he wrote “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.” Steve has been battling cancer for many years; we knew he wasn’t well, but we had no idea his tragic end would come so soon. His death came just a day after the first Apple release without him; the October 4th announcement of the iPhone 4S.

Steve Jobs was an innovator and visionary who single-handedly started an iRevolution. I share the sentiment of my friend Jason, who wrote it best:

“Steve did for the computer age what Picasso did for art – he made the world look at technology in a different light. He inspired so many people to think outside of the box – he was the man behind, the first Macintosh computer, the iMac, iTunes, and the iPhone. The iPhone was the first phone to truly put the internet in the palm of your hand… and for that we salute you Mr. Jobs, thank you for all that you gave us. You will be missed.”

So sad. Let us pay Mr. Jobs tribute with a quote:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

What is the anatomy of an Entrepreneur? Is entrepreneurship learned? Or Genetic? Turns out, entrepreneurship is not something you’re born with.

It’s not an innate quality that you either have, or you don’t. It’s something much more complicated and deeper than that, and I believe that it is a skill that can be recognized, honed and refined over time.

While there are countless (literally; impossible to count), pieces/articles/posts on the Internet that try and delineate the “essential qualities” of an entrepreneur, this is sheer nonsense.

Wikipedia defines an Entrepreneur as “an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.”

Although this may seem to be pretty standard; Wikipedia’s reference to both “risk and initiative” is vital to understanding what an entrepreneur is. By way of this definition, a business owner who makes money through playing it safe and keeping his thoughts “inside the box”, so to speak, is NOT an entrepreneur.

Anybodycan be an entrepreneur, if they are willing to smile at ingenuity and laugh at putting their job-security and small things like salary on the line (not an easy task by any measure).

So rather than focus on ineffable and (rather), inconsistent qualities that people usually focus on in an entrepreneurship discussion, such as; “leadership” or “patience”, let’s focus on what EVERYONE is capable of doing if they desire:

Learning!

A key component of fostering an entrepreneurial spirit is the knowledge that there are many things that you simply do not know, but furthermore; that you are willing to work on and learn.

I’m going to keep things brief by focusing on my favorite 3 words, defining them (courtesy of Google) and explaining why you need to know them:

Cross-functional: “a process or an activity that crosses the boundary between functions” -> A rapidly increasing number of business activities are transforming to the interdepartmental and the multidisciplinary. With another perspective, say having marketing representatives sit in on company sales meetings, not only will you foster the birth of ideas but will strengthen office relationships and make employees feel that they want and need to contribute.

Retweet: “to repost another user’s message on the social networking website Twitter”-> Easily the hottest tech word of 2011! For starters, the more retweets, the better. If you are able to really harness the power of Twitter and tweet things which are relevant, you can not only spark conversations with potential clients, but also extend your reach drastically by getting yourself retweeted by people with lots of Klout.

Light-bulb moment: “a moment of sudden inspiration, revelation, or recognition” -> My personal favorite of the whole list. While many entrepreneurs are aware that they should be constantly looking for those light-bulb moments; far too few step back enough to know where to look for them. Remember; an idea that’s simple will have far more success and ease making it from inception to execution then an overly complex one.

Mashable published a great article about Rent the Runway; I got excited when I read it and so I decided I ought to paraphrase it for a couple of reasons:

I love inspiring women; and Rent the Runway was started by two female entrepreneurs

It’s a company that melds fashion and technology

Rent the Runway makes haute luxury fashion affordable

It’s about women in high-tech; an uber minority

Started by Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss, two women that met on their first day at Harvard Business School, Rent the Runway is a technology start-up that lets ladies choose and rent from over 24,000 dresses and 12,000 accessories. Items are rented for 4 days at a time for a mere 10% of retail value; meaning you can rent a Badgley Mischka or Nina Ricci gown with a retail price tag of $5,000 for a mere $500 to wear to your next soirée. Rent the Runway also stocks $500 garments of impeccable style and taste, which can be rented for just $50! When you’re done with the garment, you simply place it into a pre-paid envelope, drop it in your nearest mailbox, and Rent the Runway dry cleans it and takes care of the rest. The concept is nothing short of brilliant.

What’s also brilliant is the two women behind the venture; their entrepreneurial spirit is beyond inspiring. Here are a few key points of business advice the ladies shared:

“I think there has to be a semblance of humility in being an entrepreneur. Yes, you need conviction and strength of passion for your idea … but you need humility to be able to constantly change and tweak the idea, to understand that you don’t have all the answers, that you need to build a team around you. And I think it’s a constant sense of, how can we be improving?”

“Be really honest with yourself about what you love … most peoples’ true passion comes from how they spend their time during the day. Do they like interacting with people or not? Do they like brainstorming? Do they like problem-solving? Do they like being super analytical? If you can structure a role for yourself in which you’re able to do these things that you’re interested in, I think you’ll end up being extremely successful.”

“And this constant drive toward improvement is a huge part of our culture. We never had a business plan. Our whole approach is to test things out, see what works, and fail. Failure’s the quickest way to figure out what the right direction is, and you can change it and do it differently and do it better each time. You can’t be an entrepreneur if you’re not willing to fail.”

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.” – Steve Jobs

I was saddened by yesterday’s news that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (AAPL) has resigned over medical concerns. While the day was inevitable (after all, much to our chagrin, nothing lasts for ever), it’s not something any one of us was looking forward to. Shortly after the news broke, the internet was abuzz with stories, clips and quotes of Steve Jobs. I was moved by a clip of Steve Jobs discussing his views on death during a Stanford commencement speech in 2005. Some of the things Steve shares are so simple, yet so profound. Things we often forget until it’s too late. Here is the clip:

‎”If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” – Steve Jobs

‎”For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I have ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” – Steve Jobs

‎”Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” – Steve Jobs

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Are you thinking you want to be an entrepreneur? If you’re yearning for a jaunt at entrepreneurship, Angie Nelson, The Work at Home Wife, shares 40 Businesses You Can Start from Home. Here are my top 5 picks: